We first started with liquid watercolors and coffee filters. Students just drizzled the watercolors across the filters then painted with water to dilute the paint. Let Dry.

Then students created a large vase with paper strips for stems then added to a table. (To make a vase, fold the paper in half, draw half a vase then cut out, make sure to draw off the fold.) Glue down vase, table and stems on a large, bright color, 18 x 24 construction paper. Next, came the beautiful painted paper flowers with petals. Students drew petals on the back of the various painted papers to create at least 3 large flowers. Add a piece of painted paper, we used our painted placemats for the center circles.

Lastly, the coffee filters were glued into the centers of the flowers. All together this project took 2- 40 minute classes. Everyone just loved these displayed in the office. I was even asked if staff could purchased them. Hmmm, maybe I have to think about that!

OMG! I may have to change my plans for Mother's Day and do this instead! My kids would be so excited, since I broke their hearts a couple weeks ago and told them we were done painting. I may have to break the paint out again for this project! Super cute! I look forward to seeing what you do in the future so I can use it in my class. I became inspired to use paint this year!!!! First time ever (after 13 years with no sink!) and I am hooked. I plan on buying lots of paint over the summer for next year.

We just used what was in our surplus of painted paper that we had painted in the beginning of the year. Students folded the paper 12 x 18 and drew the petals on the unpainted side, cut out and glued onto a circle. 🙂

Cristal

May 17, 2012 at 4:01 am

I love all the displays you have up over your school. My school has similar walls. However, it is VERY difficult to attach anything to the walls. Hot glue works but is a huge pain. What do you use to attach the butcher paper to the school walls? What do you use to attach the student work to the butcher paper?

Hi Thanks for including such detailed info about how you made these. I love art and making my own creative pieces but I find it hard to translate it into simplier art lessons I can do with my students 🙂 Thank you 🙂

These artworks are really lovely. These are just perfect for children because they get to develop their creativity and at the same time can use recycled materials. Therefore; they are also learning how to help preserve the environment. Thank you for this post. This will surely inspire several others to try this out or come up with other creative works and designs.

Anonymous

April 28, 2013 at 5:01 am

On the flowers and vase, did the children use tempra paint or watercolor paint? What were the directions for painting the paper to be cut into flowers and vase?Darling! Will get starting in Sept! 🙂Thanks,Kathy

On the vase and flowers we used tempera paint. I had the students paint paper previously then they cut the shapes out and glued them together to create the shape. The vase is folded paper draw half a shape of a vase then cut.

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I have been teaching elementary art for 20 years in Ohio. I love my job and watching my 750 students enjoy the process of creating. I love incorporating children's literature with art lessons, and anything to do with fun, colorful art. I am a mom to two lovable kids. I love to see fun projects and mix it up to create a new project. If you do post about a project please reference back to my blog. It is great getting comments and feedback to pass along to my students. Thanks for checking it out!
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